What should be done when an expansive and expensive public policy full of economic nonsense and moral hazard is proposed? It should be questioned. And
Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), long plagued by extraordinarily high spending per pupil but exceptionally weak academic results, also has been bedeviled by a plunging student
With Allegheny County Chief Executive Sara Innamorato’s proposed 46.5 percent property tax increase to fund her 2025 budget an apparent dead letter, some County Council
Converting vacant office space into residential units supposedly has become all the rage in the post-pandemic era, in Pittsburgh and nationwide. But is it, really?
We all remember the hard sales pitch of nearly 30 years ago: The tax-our-way-to-prosperity crowd was pushing, if not attempting to shame, the public in
Pittsburgh compares poorly to a composite of four cities that serve as a performance benchmark, concludes an updated analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public
It was early 20th-century advertising pioneer Elmer Wheeler who coined the iconic “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” sales pitch. That is, as
While passenger levels at Pittsburgh International Airport recovered to May 2019 numbers this past May, they continued to lag the national upturn, says a researcher
Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) could receive millions of dollars more in state funding for its fiscal 2024-25 budget. But scholars at the Allegheny Institute for
While the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing attempting to grow the commonwealth’s economy by giving away taxpayer money, a researcher at the
